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AudioBoo plans to make Android app open source

...app, but that it was time to "give something back to the open source movement". "We believe this open source approach for Android suits the... Read more

18 August, 2011

Book review: The Master Switch

...battles between Verizon and AT&T, Apple and Google, Microsoft and the open source movement: who will control the internet's master switch? Wu is... Read more

24 January, 2011
Open source faces hurdles in the cloud

Open source faces hurdles in the cloud

...TAR file. And what about open source within the cloud industry? The open-source movement started in the 1980s after computing had had a couple... Read more

29 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds

...these ethical values that separate free software from open source. When the open-source movement coalesced in 1998, its proponents wanted to drop the ethical... Read more

6 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Microsoft steps on Samba's toes

...well beyond the group of self-appointed programming hobbyists who launched the open-source movement. Microsoft business partners IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others have embraced... Read more

10 May, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Open source defence centre launched

A prominent intellectual property lawyer in the open source movement is helping launch a centre to provide free services to... Read more

1 February, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

IBM plans open-source storage strategy

...recent example of IBM trying to capitalise on the momentum of the open-source movement. The company also backs the Linux operating system, the Globus... Read more

23 December, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft does open source u-turn

...steps to make sure its Windows franchise can survive the attack. The open-source movement also represents a larger threat to Microsoft that transcends any... Read more

14 October, 2002 by Alorie Gilbert, Joe Wilcox and Mike Ricciuti

Eric Raymond: Why open source will rule

...Cathedral and the Bazaar and other open-source texts. For evidence that open-source movement now has the mainstream credibility it lacked in the late... Read more

28 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Eric Raymond: Microsoft could have killed Linux

Microsoft could have killed off the open-source movement if it had tried in 1998, according to Open Source... Read more

27 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft: ready for open source threat?

There's more to Microsoft's recent attacks on the open-source movement than mere rhetoric: Linux's popularity could hinder the software... Read more

19 June, 2001 by Joe Wilcox and Stephen Shankland

Red Hat UK's favourite software supplier - ISPA awards

...by the endorsement, but sees the award as a boost for the open source movement as a whole. "This is brilliant news," says Tenwick. "It... Read more

17 February, 2000 by Will Knight

Interview: Open-source advocate Eben Moglen

The former general counsel for the Free Software Foundation discusses how the open-source movement has developed in the last 12 months Read more

11 May, 2007 by Andrew Donoghue

Open source comes of age

A succession of high-profile patent cases do the open source movement no harm at all by pushing the issue of software... Read more

13 March, 2006 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft rejects IBM strategy and open source 'dorks'

IBM's on-demand model is crazy and the open source movement is just people dorking around with source code. So says... Read more

15 November, 2005 by Colin Barker

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yeah! all we want free software

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